In the East

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Author's Note: This is a Shadowlands story set between the panels of Scheherazade by Alicia McKenzie.


They're somewhere that maybe used to be Morocco when all the stars in the eastern sky start falling.

It's as if someone's putting on a fireworks display just for them, and Nate is suddenly paying more attention to it than he has to anything except the sound of her voice for a long time. It gives Domino one of those tiny surges of hope that keeps her putting one foot in front of the other.

It reminds her of a story.

"A long time ago, there was a girl called Mary, who was meant to marry this guy Joseph ..."

The End